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New York City’s public hospitals could be facing malpractice suits since the discovery that the results from at least 4,000 echocardiograms were never reviewed by doctors. The hospital failed to have an adequate procedural system requiring doctors to review the tests, which monitor heart disease and abnormal heart function.

Stories like this (NY Times) appear far too frequently in papers across the country, yet insurance companies continue to claim all medical malpractice lawsuits are frivolous and instill fear in the American public through tort reform.

The Medical Malpractice Myth, by Tom Baker, Director of the Insurance Law Center at University of Connecticut, disputes these claims with facts. The book provides research proving the following:

  • Medical malpractice is an epidemic that causes thousands of deaths a year
  • Medical malpractice suits are rare, and are very rarely frivolous
  • Malpractice insurance premiums aren’t impossibly high
  • Rising insurance costs are not closely related to litigation
  • Doctors are not leaving their practices

Order The Medical Malpractice Myth and use the truth to combat tort reform messages.

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